Hope you've all had a good worship Sunday. A close friend went to Florida and an Episcopal church, they mustered 27, average age 79, and were led by a Lesbyterian. Well, serve them right for going to Largo. But here's the thing about these Lesbyterians and their middle-aged cohort.
They think, they really do, that 1970s aesthetic and lack of theology will bring the people in, not unlike the Roman hierarchy, when you think on it. Hopelessly lost in 1982. Problem is, nylon chasaubles, guitar playing nuns, wymxn priestesses, and ambi-sexual leaderenes haven't done this.
Here. Years ago a friend who went on to be ordained by JPII exclaimed over the breakfast room table, "Franco was a Saint!" My dad beat the table, as in "NO!" and there it was.
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LSP
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ReplyDeleteOh yes, Seamus, hence the pics.
Delete"Average age 79" - Pictures of the congregation available in the encyclopedia under "frozen chosen."
ReplyDeleteLesbyterian - Just thinking about it makes me ask please pass the eye bleach.
Wild, my friend was asked why she didn't receive Holy Communion. She replied, "I'm a Roman Catholic and I didn't want to throw up." On point, eh?
DeleteHere in Gainesville, FL, there are two big Catholic churches on the west side of town.
ReplyDeleteHoly Trinity is the very model of brutalistic modern architecture. All dark wood, dark brick, dark paint. And the congregation is the very model of brutalistic modern Catholic semi-atheistic Catholics.
The other, Queen of Peace, is a huge tall modern steel frame building built to look like a medieval church. Big windows, lots of light, stained glass slowly replacing clear glass, light-stained wood, white walls. The atmosphere is heady and airy and open and peaceful and becoming. People smile. And you can feel God everywhere.
There are good congregations everywhere. Just as there are bad congregations. Just don't settle, do some looking. The unhappy churches will eventually chase everyone away or they'll die out one way or another.
Beans, I've done that math, right on, and what can we say? God's judgement is inexorable.
DeleteAmple women in comfortable shoes doing liturgical interpretive dance wouldn't draw me to attend a service or to stay for the promised doughnut.
ReplyDeleteThey think, LL, that they're "traditional." Seriously. With a Lesbyterian pastorene. Huh. Don't say driven insane by Satan.
DeleteSome twenty or so are abuelas and RC. They go to Mass faithfully but don't enjoy it and resent the loss of their childhood church. There are many churches in this city. On Sundays, the only overflowed parking lots I see are "storefront" churches.
ReplyDeleteIt must be galling for you and other clergy trying to stay the right path.
It's a mixed thing, WSF. Where the Faith is practiced and taught and God's worshipped there's great success. Being shot in the back by a gang of Leftists pretending to be bishops is another thing again. I'm OK on that score, my Roman brothers? Maybe not so much.
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